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Any way within Google Hangouts, to test the connection?
For example, are there any Google Hangouts one can just drop into, with people in different countries so I can test the connection?
Sometimes ...

I don't like the new Google Hangout integration with my gmail web app. It's too busy, too much color, and too hard to see what status people are. In short, get off my lawn.
Can I get the old Google ...

I tried sending someone an FTP link just now and he said when he clicked on it it opened https://talkgadget.google.com in a browser instead of the URL sent in the chat. The same thing happened when I ...

In my list of Google Hangouts contacts it says "last seen 8 hours ago" or "last seen 4 days ago" beside some names. What exactly does this mean? I saw the person at the same location, or I had contact ...

I see somebody has asked how to remove a specific app from Google Hangouts (sidebar) but unfortunately the directions are specific to their app. In my case, every time I start a hangouts video call, ...

I recently noticed that my Google contacts started showing pictures and full names of some contacts, presumably because they were using Google Voice. I added myself as a contact, merely as 'X' with my ...

I use Google Hangouts quite a ridiculous amount and I'd like to know if there's a way to show how many individual messages are sent between users in a Hangout conversation. Is this at all possible? ...

I decided to remove a contact from my circles and somehow from my chat list. I didn't wish to block this person. I just wanted their name to be gone because we have a history and "out of sight, out of ...

My primary domain name is foobar.com. My secondary domain name is fizbaz.com. When I create links in Google Calendar to do a Hangout, the URL always includes foobar.com no matter what, but I'd like ...

My wife's laptop has Chrome installed. She uses it under her Chrome username. I sometimes use it with my Chrome username. Since installing the Google Hangouts extension on my Chrome account (on my own ...

My question is related to this one.
So I have a person added to my Gmail contacts, with phone number and e-mail. Person's e-mail is on gmail.com.
Every Gmail account is not just e-mail, but also is ...

Has anyone seen this issue? About once a day, I can't get the Hangout chat pop-up to appear. I can see under any given contact that I've been sent a message, see the first few words, the contact is ...

I've been using Google Hangouts via Gmail and I'm wondering how the new "last seen" option really works. I know that it is used to show your contacts when you were last using Hangouts but does that ...

When calling with Google Hangout, how can I set the caller ID, the number that recipient of my phone call sees? Is it even possible at all to set it?
Now it's showing a US number when I call my own ...

When I make a Google Calendar event on a Google Apps business account, a Hangout link is automatically generated:
When I invite people from outside the organization to the event, they appear in the ...

I've got Gmail and Google Voice. My Google Voice is essentially an alias for my cell phone. Here's the problem though: if I happen to have Gmail open in a tab on my computer, and a call comes into my ...

In the IT department testers are frequently waiting for developers to arrive into the office to answer questions.
Is there any functionality in Hangout that will send message when person of interest ...

My company uses Google Hangouts chat as an IM client.
When there is a new incoming message in a Google Hangout multi-person chat that I have joined, neither the Windows taskbar icon for the Hangout ...

A few weeks ago I was able to resize the Google Hangouts window, but now (and for the last couple of weeks) when I hover my cursor over the bottom or side of the Hangouts window it no longer changes ...

Is it possible to generate a report saying on a particular day in a particular hangout, I have spent x minutes on a Google video hangout?
What I would like to have is something like this:
Person A's ...

Is it possible to recover the history of the chat window available during Google Hangouts video call? This is separate from the history of the chat client and is not accessible with the same method I ...

Is it possible to have Hangouts use desktop notifications much like GMail and the Stack Exchange chat?
I have notifications enabled and GMail desktop notifications enabled, but not seeing such option ...

I need to create a link to open one particular Hangouts chat (not videocall). It is possible to open a chat in a separate window from the main Google+ page, but the URL of that window (something like ...

Within Google app's I am unable to grant my users access to the Google Hangouts Chrome plugin. I have checked my global domain settings as well as my settings for a user. But still users are unable ...